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Summer Reading 5: The Penderwicks

While in Anacortes and Friday Harbor with my parents, husband, kids, and in-laws(!) last weekend, I also managed to read The Penderwicks, a delightful, charming, and heart-warming “Summer Tale about Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy” (as the subtitle puts it), which won a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in [...]

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I’m reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society right now and am enjoying it immensely—more than I expected to, given the strange title.
Here’s what I’ve noticed 50 pages in: I see no overarching “conflict” or plot arc that is keeping me hooked. There is not tension, let alone conflict, on every page. There [...]

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